Our
Junior hurlers opening game of the season against last year's Junior
County finalists, Bennettsbridge, in the All County Junior hurling
league was always going to be a big test for us and we came through the
test with an A+ after clinching a last minute point to win.
Bennettsbridge were 1-3 to 0-0 up after nighteen minutes and looking
like they were cruising when a 'Boro '70 was (thankfully) poorly struck,
floating into the square, where Brian Dollard pulled in the air and
sent it to the net. Our next score came four minutes later with a
Darragh Buggy point and we had to wait for another nine minutes before
our next, an Evan Guilfoyle goal, in what was a low scoring half for the
'Boro. Ht Dicksboro 2-1 Bennettsbridge 1-7.

For most
of the first quarter of the second half, Bennettsbridge maintained a
three or four point lead but our break came on the seventeenth minute
when Tom Manning, who had a very good game, pulled first time on a ball
arriving in the square to raise the green flag and leave us trailing by
only a point. Two minutes later it was Mason Clifford's ture to raise
the green flag and the 'Boro were now in the lead for the first time in
the match. It was now the 'Boro's turn to pull away, tapping over
another couple of points. At the end of the thirty minutes, the 'Boro
were two points ahead (4-7 to 1-14) but four minutes of injury time had
to be played and two pointed frees from the Bridge in the space of two
minutes meant everything was level and it looked like it would end like
that until Evan Guilfoyle pointed for the 'Boro in the last minute of
injury time to win the game. Ft Dicksboro 4-8 Bennettsbridge 1-16.